SKU: HL.48024961
UPC: 840126950366.
Composer's note: My approach to arranging this carol, as well as the other carols in Nordic Christmas, was to look at the text (originally in Danish by Nikolai Grundtvig, 1783-1872) and its background to see if there are new meanings hidden in the material. Perhaps there are circumstances around its creation or messages the original authors were trying to say that somehow get lost in the way they are interpreted today. Lovely is the dark blue sky is usually performed as a lustrous up-tempo carol, but thinking of Grundtvig's story and life, writing this text between episodes of severe mental illness, and his vision of a child looking at the dark blue sky at night, I made the atmosphere of this arrangement more dreamy, still and full of wonder. I still wanted to keep it childlike, with the choir singing tenderly and the soprano solo is ideally sung by a child. The melody was written 'by an old man who had never before composed any music', as stated in the 1853 hymnbook in which this melody first appeared. It is the only known composition of its writer, the Norwegian-Danish Jacob Gerhard Meidell (1778-1857), who was a captain in the Danish Army and later a customs inspector in Copenhagen. The text was written by one of the great Danish hymn writers, N F S Grundtvig in 1810. It was written between a manic and a depressive episode. During a time of being well, he wanted to write about Christmas through the eyes of a child. The message is simple, as a children's song with storybook elements.
SKU: HL.1107786
ISBN 9781705177792. UPC: 196288103097. 9.0x12.0x0.382 inches.
Get ready for some play-along fun with your fellow pickers! Bluegrass Songs provides melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments in this new, easy to use format. Enjoy strumming and singing these bluegrass standards with any combo of friends who play ukulele, baritone ukulele, banjo, guitar, or mandolin. A great resource for stringed instrument players who are ready to experience the fun of making music together! This collection features a stellar lineup of 70 bluegrass standards everyone should know: Ballad of Jed Clampett • Blue Moon of Kentucky • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow • The Long Black Veil • Nine Pound Hammer • Rocky Top • Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms • Turn Your Radio On • Wabash Cannonball • Wayfaring Stranger • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • The Wreck of the Old '97 • You Are My Sunshine • and more.
SKU: HL.364346
ISBN 9781705134283. UPC: 840126958652. 9.0x12.0x0.266 inches.
Strum Together songbooks feature melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments displayed together in an easy-to-use format. With this edition, you can play 47 Dylan classics on ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and/or banjo! This is a great resource for stringed instrument players who are ready to experience the fun of making music together. Songs include: All Along the Watchtower • All I Really Want to Do • Blowin' in the Wind • Forever Young • Girl from the North Country • Gotta Serve Somebody • A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall • Highway 61 Revisited • It Ain't Me, Babe • Jokerman • Just like a Woman • Knockin' on Heaven's Door • Lay, Lady, Lay • Like a Rolling Stone • Maggie's Farm • Mr. Tambourine Man • Quinn, the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) • Tangled up in Blue • The Times They Are A-Changin' • and more.
SKU: HL.115029
ISBN 9781480312869. UPC: 884088877774. 9x12 inches.
Perfect for use on its own or as a supplement to the Play Mandolin Today! method, this book/audio package features 10 pop & folk favorites and downloadable professional-quality audio with full-band demo and play-along tracks. Songs: Blackbird • Blue Moon of Kentucky • Dark Eyes • I Hope You Dance • Jolene • The Kesh Jig • My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic) • Never on Sunday • The Sound of Silence • With or Without You.
SKU: BT.MUSWMR000660
ISBN 9780711976375. English.
Fun repertoire for beginner pianists, graded to work alongside John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course. Ideal for pupils from Part 2 upwards, and invaluable for securing basic technique whilst developing musicality andenjoyment.
SKU: HL.400504
ISBN 9781596156371. UPC: 077712344012. 9x12 inches.
This book, filled with some of the greatest banjo classics, is designed to help musicians develop basic bluegrass techniques, based on the styles of groups such as Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys. The banjo solos, featuring such classics as The Ballad of Jed Clampett, Salty Dog Blues, and Jesse James, are written out note-for-note in easy-to-follow tablature notation in the book. You listen to the complete version with soloist, then you step in as soloist with the great Country Cooking bluegrass band, featuring fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass and vocals! Also includes basic techniques and pointers. Performed by Peter Wernick, banjo Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK , a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
SKU: HL.282475
ISBN 9781540034328. UPC: 888680789190. 9.0x12.0x0.847 inches.
Music is what helped many keep their spirits up during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Here are 100 of the most memorable songs of the decade presented in easy piano arrangements with lyrics. Songs include: As Time Goes By * Blue Moon * Body and Soul * Embraceable You * Georgia on My Mind * The Glory of Love * How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky) * I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) * I Got Rhythm * I'll Be Seeing You * In the Mood * The Lady Is a Tramp * Love Is Here to Stay * Mood Indigo * My Funny Valentine * The Nearness of You * Over the Rainbow * Sing, Sing, Sing * Summertime * Thanks for the Memory * The Very Thought of You * The Way You Look Tonight * and more.
SKU: BA.BA08524
ISBN 9790006564194. 27 x 19 cm inches. Text Language: Swedish, English. Text: Kerstin Dillmar.
“Triptyk†(“Triptychâ€) and “MörkblÃ¥ tillit†(“Dark Blue Trustâ€) have been written by hospital chaplain/author Kerstin Dillmar.In her work she often meets people who walk in the shadow of death and her dealings and thoughts about this are a central part of her writing. This is most clearly seen in “MörkblÃ¥ tillit†whose key message is to trust that we will be safe and secure after passing away in sleep. Jansson’s intention with the music was to enhance this feeling of comforting trust without taking away the seriousness of the subject. “Triptyk†on the other hand describes a journey within a person in three stages which moves from despair, “God, my God why have I forsaken myself?â€, through to hope and faith that God is within.The music depicts these stages, starting with a dark-searching tonality, then describing the simple beauty of trust through to a joyful expectation of hope and ending with a strong conviction.
